A civilised country would’ve regulated those kinds of anti-consumer practices decades ago. The heck are you lot doing?!

That’s gotta be the most American thing I’ve ever heard - your refund going through a third party who takes a 30% cut. What a joke.

I don’t think you’re Google’s target market to be fair.

Yep. It’s usually only people who check benchmark numbers or have an anti-Pixel bias that think Tensor is a bad CPU. The only issue I’ve really had with my 7’s CPU is thermals, which has improved with every generation (or so I’m led to believe). Even then, it’s just having a slightly warmer phone when recording videos and stuff. I’m sure it’s bad for the phone’s longevity but I’ve never noticed any throttling. I don’t play intensive games on my phone though because gaming on any phone is an awful experience.

My Pixel 7 still runs absolutely fine but I won’t lie, I am looking forward to upgrading either this year (P10P) or next (P11P)!

Almost makes sense to skip the 10 series so Google can iron out their new Tensor design, but we’ll see soon enough how it performs.

No problems whatsoever on my Pixel 7 running stock 16.

Thankfully I’m not American so have waaaay more protections from “evil corporations” than you. But you sound like you should start wearing tinfoil around your brain to stop them from reading your thoughts - I mean, why wouldn’t they if they could, right?

Google isn’t sharing your fingerprint to the government, mate. Let’s be serious.

This site is almost worse than Reddit sometimes with the hyperbole and the nutty takes. No, Google isn’t about to abuse its position, squander decades of goodwill and open itself up to regulatory hell to sell biometric data to some mythical boogie man.

I’m sorry, are you trying to suggest that Google is now going to store and track every Pixel user’s biometrics? Why would you think that? What’s changed now that suggests Google would even try that?

T’was instant for me. I’m pretty sure Google fixed the “Check for Updates” button years ago so that it forces your device to jump to the front of the queue when you tap it.

That was a rumour. Whereas this is a post from an official Android social media account heavily hinting at release today. There’s a distinct difference.

The state of Android journalism. Nothing but engagement-bait like this, and “exclusive scoops” of unreleased features that never see the light of day.